Quote: M@islebugs "I'm pretty certain that cash from the EU was earmarked to decontaminate the entire site.
When I was a lad I used to go to the tip and the wagon sank and then would spring back, as if the ground were foam rubber. Be a great cushion against earthquakes.'"
You may well be correct on that M@islebugs, though don't these EU grants usually come with an end date, after which they expire, if not used?
Jools, I'd guess the biggest difference between your company's experience and Odsal is the difference between the known knowns and the unknown knowns. Fair enough, if you know what's there, you are better able to make an assessment of what is 'safe' [or what you can get away with] and what isn't, but at Odsal, back in the day, it was pretty much uncontrolled, unregulated tipping and no-one has a clue what might come to the surface....or indeed, might be still slowly seeping into the ground water. I guess you may be more au fait with the system than I am but it all still seems a bit dodgy to me.